Once his girlfriend says he can go and work for her father a student loses all motivation to go to law school, something his father is very keen on.
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Reared by an abusive, pill-popping mother and an absentee playboy father, six-year-old Valentina must fend for herself. She does what she can to craft the illusion of normalcy: makes herself lunches that look just like the ones her classmates tote, dresses and grooms herself expertly, and lies to cover up for her mother Anita's erratic behavior.
Sasha, a loud mouthed thirteen-year-old goes on her first date but when she gets turned on and takes charge of her own sexuality it reveals the confusing nature of what girls are allowed to want.
While Pierrot, surrounded by his friends, is glued to the TV watching a soccer match, Stella, his shy girlfriend, must give up celebrating her birthday. She had planned everything but had forgotten that it was a sacred evening - the second round of the playoffs.
The mother of 18-year-old Amon Beckles relives the moments that led to his gang-style murder at the funeral of his best friend.
A middle aged couple, Jane and John are concerned about their 17 year old daughter, when she decides to attend a party with boyfriend Chad, whom they don't approve of.
On the eve of a difficult day, two estranged friends reunite to look for certainty ahead of an uncertain future.
In a night market, five characters recount their own unique story and represent a facet of Malaysian culture rarely explored.
8-year-old Jérémy is ready for a typical evening with his parents and little brother. But his mother’s behavior grows more and more unsettling.
On the last day of college, three lives quietly collide with memories, choices, and unspoken feelings. Hope is a poetic reflection on timing, love, and the moments that could have changed everything. Hope follows three hearts bound by silence, longing, and what remains unsaid. A gentle story about love, timing, and the fragile beauty of unanswered emotions.
When Ghanaian cleaner Ebenezer finds a winning lottery ticket, his dream of going to university suddenly seems within reach. But when he is unable to provide identification to claim the prize, he can no longer stay under the radar and is forced to take risks.
Some say that love is when two halves of hearts that complement each other meet. But what happens if he is a blind musician, and she is a deaf artist. Together they complete each other and prove that the love is beyond any boundaries.
A marriage proposal prompts Carolina to recall three previous relationships as she wanders through Manhattan.
Maruta is driven out of his land after he is considered to be cursed. After wandering through the forest, he encounters a stardust children who are righteous & pure. Maruta befriends Senebu & Bella & the children but as the Star festival approaches...
When thugs target his idol best friend, a model student must face emotions he’s hidden for too long.
A family of cats find an abandoned kitten and take him in to their home. But one of the siblings becomes jealous about the attention the new cat gets from her mother and runs away from home. The new member of the family goes looking for her. Can he bring her back home safely and get her to accept him as part of the family?
When Gloria, a lonely housewife, is forced to spend her New Years party looking after Eric, her daughter's heartbroken and hungover ex-boyfriend, an unexpected bond develops between them that will change their night, and possibly their lives.
At the end of the summer holiday, Louise, blind since birth, is smothered between her mother and her sister. After getting lost in the forest, a chance encounter on a naturist campsite will upset her habits.
Ambivalent about her pregnancy, Connie attempts to withstand the desert, her husband and herself.
Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
When Billy returns from reform school he has to attend a different high school at the other side of town. He tries to start with a clean slate but his old rival doesn't make it easy on him and his buddy Louie tries to make him go astray again. His brother Joe, quite the opposite of Billy, is a good runner and determined to win a track scholarship. He suggests Billy to join his school's track team, which pits the two brothers against each other.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a fractured foot. Upon returning, she discovers that her clique of friends has devised a new, secret plan codenamed "Lick the Star."
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.